Creative Entrepreneur: Brittany Koteles
by Ann Abbott Just a few years ago, Brittany Koteles was a University of Illinois student in my course titled "Spanish & Entrepreneurship: Languages, Cultures & Communities." Now she embodies that title. Among her many accomplishments, Brittany pushed a referendum for her school in her hometown when she was in high school; in college she designed her own major; she worked for Ashoka; she did a Fulbright in Barcelona; she authored case studies of several Catalonian social entrepreneurs; she worked on a social enterprise start-up (Hub, Barcelona); and more. Now she and a partner have crowd-sourced the financing for a short film and shot it! Click on the image below to see a trailer for the film. Bow is the e-mail I received from her yesterday--in three languages plus a greeting in Turkish. She is a model for all my students. Dear friends, Two months ago, we had a dream to make a short film. With your help, we did much more than that. Because of the cri...